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Subject: Re: [DNA] reporting of results
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:54:15 EST


In reply to your commment re restrictive DNA reporting, I want to say that
I too, have been some troubled by non-standard reporting. It is NOT a good
thing to have ANY kind of lab-imposed limits upon reporting, and non-standard
reporting appears to me an excellent euphemism for "partial reporting".

AND.......I have just spent the last hour drafting what I hope was a lucid
reply to one of the Genealogy Lists to which I belong in re Genealogy
INFORMATION (names, dates etc., never mind the DNA!) being restricted! It
seems there is a group of "researchers" who believe that information should
be restricted and that information dealing with who we are and where we came
from belongs to someone ELSE!
I have a REAL HUGE problem with this.

I understand the difficulties inherent in DNA sequencing and reporting, which
of necessity must employ laboratories and consequently moves us into such
areas as patenting etc. This is NOT to say I agree. However, when the very
essece (DNA) of a people is being unlocked and as a result, providing us with
MORE information, I cannot concieve of why genealogists should become more
restrictive amd protective of information which has exisited all along!

Linda Chesson

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